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Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
We would not have got the sciences and engineering without exposure to western education. Modi is as usual selling his propaganda based on half truths.
Promoting Hindi or Bharatiya languages over English alone won’t suffice.
What we must do is reintroduce Bharatiya education.
IKS is a welcome step but actually a reinforcement of the same ‘captive mindset’, for we teach everything by default still with the western paradigms, and IKS as a separate subject.
It should be the other way around, IKS should be the default in every discipline, and WKS (Western Knowledge Systems) an additional subject for global exposure.
Also while we are at it, it felt sad to hear the key ideas expressed with a dash of Urdu (ghulami, azadi, etc.), as if a last desperate attempt to get those on board who we know were never and will never be on board with Bharat and Bharatiyata unless it is diluted with qaumiyat.
Disappointing to see the author conflate learning English as a language (which should never be a problem… Speaking for myself, that honour should only be reserved for the قومی زبان which promises none of the benefits and all of the brainwashing) and English as the medium of instruction.
Learning the language opens up all the claimed benefits. Replacing the medium creates an entry barrier that stops the vast majority of people from success, turning language into the new caste.
Also it should be borne in mind that teaching, for instance, the sciences and the social sciences in English = Smuggling in Eurocentric paradigms, frameworks, and philosophy. Once again, not intrinsically a bad idea to study how different parts of the world think, but problematic when taught as the only truth, almost like an exclusivist religion.
All I would say is
आङ्ग्लभाषायाः अध्ययनं न समस्या, आङ्ग्लभाषायां चिन्तनमेव समस्या।
We would not have got the sciences and engineering without exposure to western education. Modi is as usual selling his propaganda based on half truths.
Promoting Hindi or Bharatiya languages over English alone won’t suffice.
What we must do is reintroduce Bharatiya education.
IKS is a welcome step but actually a reinforcement of the same ‘captive mindset’, for we teach everything by default still with the western paradigms, and IKS as a separate subject.
It should be the other way around, IKS should be the default in every discipline, and WKS (Western Knowledge Systems) an additional subject for global exposure.
Also while we are at it, it felt sad to hear the key ideas expressed with a dash of Urdu (ghulami, azadi, etc.), as if a last desperate attempt to get those on board who we know were never and will never be on board with Bharat and Bharatiyata unless it is diluted with qaumiyat.
Disappointing to see the author conflate learning English as a language (which should never be a problem… Speaking for myself, that honour should only be reserved for the قومی زبان which promises none of the benefits and all of the brainwashing) and English as the medium of instruction.
Learning the language opens up all the claimed benefits. Replacing the medium creates an entry barrier that stops the vast majority of people from success, turning language into the new caste.
Also it should be borne in mind that teaching, for instance, the sciences and the social sciences in English = Smuggling in Eurocentric paradigms, frameworks, and philosophy. Once again, not intrinsically a bad idea to study how different parts of the world think, but problematic when taught as the only truth, almost like an exclusivist religion.